Bathurst Masters Win NSW Championship:Bathurst Cycling Club has taken gold in the Masters Division (150yr +) at the 2018 NSW Club Team Time Trial Championships which was held at Nowra Airport Circuit on Saturday 21 July 2018.

The event is an historic event (first held in 1902) which decides the Champion Club of NSW with the awarding of the annual Champions Shield. Bathurst has an excellent record in the Premierships winning a number of Individual Masters TTT Titles in recent years and was an impressive runner up to Sutherland in the Champion Club Overall Title in 2014.

This year Bathurst took gold is one of the premierships most competitive categories the Masters Men 150 Championship (were the youngest 3 riders in the 4 man team total age is more than 150yrs – in other work average age of 50years). Bathurst’s 2018 Nsw champion team consisted of Richard Hobson, Dennis Martin, Jeremy Ryan and Mark Windsor.

The Bathurst gold medal winning team completed the 40km Nowra Course in a very fast 59:17.68 to defeat rivals Randwick Botany and Illawarra by more than 1 ½ minutes.

The local club was also unlucky to mass a medal in the Masters Men 180 Championship were the Bathurst of Jim Lavis, David Reece, Graham Stait & Robert Stephen finished 4th only seconds outside the 2nd and 3rd placegetters times.

Giant Sydney cycle club Sydney Uni Velo won the overall Championship with Bathurst slipping to 12th overall in 2018 after a number of top 5 performances in the last decade. Bathurst also runners up to Illawarra Cycling Club in the Top Country Cycling Club for 2018.